The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

A noble book! all men's book!